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year= [[Earth]], [[England]], [[Shoreditch]], [[Totters Lane]], [[1997]] <br> [[Earth]], [[100,000 BCE]] <br> [[War Planet]] <br> [[Earth]], [[England]], [[London]], circa [[1970s]] <br> [[E-Space]], Vampire Planet <br> [[Eye of Orion]] <br> [[Space Station Zenobia]] <br> [[Gallifrey]] <br> [[Metebelis III]] |
|doctor= Eighth Doctor
writer= [[Terrance Dicks]] |
|featuring= Sam Jones
publisher= [[BBC Books]] |
|featuring2= First Doctor
release date= [[June]] [[1997]] |
|featuring3= Second Doctor
format= Paperback Book, 280 Pages |
|featuring4= Third Doctor
isbn= ISBN 0-563-40563-5 |
|featuring5= Fourth Doctor
previous story= BBC: [[Doctor Who - The Novel of the Film]]<br>[[NA]]: [[The Dying Days]]|
|featuring6= Fifth Doctor
next story= [[Vampire Science]]}}
|featuring7= Sixth Doctor
|featuring8= Seventh Doctor
|featuring9= Susan Foreman
|featuring10= Barbara Wright
|featuring11= Ian Chesterton
|featuring12= Jamie McCrimmon
|featuring13= Zoe Heriot
|featuring14= Jo Grant
|featuring15= John Benton
|featuring16= Romana II
|featuring17= Tegan Jovanka
|featuring18= Vislor Turlough
|featuring19= Matrix Rassilon
|featuring20 = Flavia
|enemy= [[Ryoth]]
|setting= {{il|[[London]], [[1997]]|[[Earth]], [[BC|100000 BC]]|[[Planet (The War Games)|An unnamed planet]]|[[England]], the [[1970s]]|[[Vampire planet]], [[E-Space]]|[[Eye of Orion]]|[[Space Station Zenobia]]|[[Metebelis III]]|[[Gallifrey]]}}
|writer= Terrance Dicks
|publisher= BBC Books
|release date= 2 June 1997
|cover= [[Black Sheep]]
|format= Paperback Book; 25 Chapters, 280 Pages
|isbn= ISBN 0-563-40563-5
|next= Vampire Science (novel)
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'''''The Eight Doctors''''' was the first novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Terrance Dicks]], released [[2 June (releases)|2 June]] [[1997 (releases)|1997]] and featured the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Sam Jones]].


== Publisher's Summary ==
It explored the [[amnesia]] theme of the ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'' TV movie by having the [[Eighth Doctor]] encounter his predecessors. Amnesia would later become a frequent affliction for this incarnation, particularly across this novel series.


Recuperating after the trauma of his recent regeneration, [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]] falls foul of a final booby trap set by his arch-enemy, [[the Master]].
== Publisher's summary ==
Recuperating after the trauma of his recent [[regeneration]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] falls foul of a final booby trap set by his arch-enemy, [[the Master]].


When he recovers, the disorientated Doctor looks in a mirror and sees the face of a stranger. He knows only that he is called the Doctor - nothing more. But something deep inside tells him to trust the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]], and his hands move over the controls of their own accord.
When he recovers, the disorientated Doctor looks in a mirror and sees the face of a stranger. He knows only that he is called the Doctor - nothing more. But something deep inside tells him to trust [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], and his hands move over the controls of their own accord.


The TARDIS takes him to a strangely familiar junkyard in late-nineties London, where he is flung into a confrontation between local drug-dealers and [[Samantha Jones]], a rebellious teenager from [[Coal Hill School]].
The TARDIS takes him to a strangely familiar [[76 Totter's Lane|junkyard]] in late-nineties [[London]], where he is flung into a confrontation between local drug-dealers and [[Sam Jones|Samantha Jones]], a rebellious teenager from [[Coal Hill School]].


But the Doctor soon finds the TARDIS transporting him to various other places in order to recover all his memories - and that involves seeing seven strangely-familiar faces...
But the Doctor soon finds the TARDIS transporting him to various other places in order to recover all his memories - and that involves seeing seven strangely-familiar faces...


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
After an encounter with {{Roberts}} in [[1999]] [[San Francisco]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] finishes reading ''[[The Time Machine]]'' (a book written by his old friend [[H. G. Wells]]). After he checks the [[Eye of Harmony]] in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]], he falls prey to a final trap set by his old enemy, the Master, which erases all of his memory. The only fact he knows for certain is that he is called "the Doctor" - but Doctor who? His instincts tell him to "trust the TARDIS", which immediately lands.


He has landed at a scrapyard at [[76 Totter's Lane]], [[London]] in 1997, where he encounters a young lady by the name of [[Sam Jones]], who is being accused by local drug dealers, led by [[Baz Bailey]], of "grassing" them over to the police. Having saved Sam from these insidious characters, who were intending to force Sam into taking drugs to get her addicted, the Doctor falls foul of the local police who promptly charge him with possession and selling the cocaine he has confiscated from the thugs. Sam tells her two teachers, who have noticed her lateness, and takes them back to the junkyard to verify the story. The Doctor escapes in the confusion of Bailey's desperate attack on the local police station. He runs back into the TARDIS and it dematerialises - taking the cocaine with him to dispose of it safely. This leaves Sam alone, defenceless against the knife-wielding druggies...


The Doctor, concerned about aspects of his adventure in San Francisco, checks out the Eye of Harmony to ensure all is well -- and triggers a trap set by the Master, which erases all memory of his identity. A voice in his head tells him to trust the TARDIS, and he allows his ship to transport him to I.M. Foreman’s junkyard, in the year 1997 AD. There, drug dealer Baz Bailey has cornered Sam Jones, a schoolgirl who informed on him out to the police, with the intention of forcing her to take crack and getting her addicted. The Doctor’s arrival interrupts him, and Sam flees as the police arrive. The Doctor attempts to confiscate Bailey’s stash of cocaine, but when the police arrive they arrest the Doctor for possession. Bailey, desperate to get his drugs back before his supplier demands payback, arranges for his supporters to cause a riot at the police station as a distraction; in the confusion, however, the Doctor manages to get away from his interrogators, and takes the cocaine with him to dispose of it elsewhere. Meanwhile, Sam is caught returning late to Coal Hill School by her teachers Vicky Latimer and Trev Selby, and in order to prove her story she takes them back to Foreman’s Yard -- where Bailey and his gang have just arrived in pursuit of the Doctor. The Doctor, still disoriented and unsure what’s going on, steps into the TARDIS and dematerializes, leaving Sam, Vicky and Trev at the mercy of the frightened, angry, and knife-wielding Baz.
The TARDIS lands in the year 100,000 BC, and he meets his first incarnation in the jungle and they psychically link (giving the Eighth Doctor his memories up to that point in his life). The Eighth Doctor stops [[First Doctor|his other self]] from killing [[Za|a caveman]] who was slowing their party down. The First Doctor explains that he must get away before the "time bubble" his eighth self is in bursts and starts to damage the timeline. The Eighth Doctor then leaves.


The TARDIS takes the Doctor to a Paleolithic jungle, where an old man is arguing with three people who have stopped to help an injured caveman. The Doctor intervenes when the old man attempts to smash in the caveman’s head with a rock, and the moment they encounter each other, Time is suspended and the Doctor acquires the memories of the old man -- his first incarnation. Now understanding the First Doctor’s position, the Doctor nevertheless reminds him that he left Gallifrey because of the arrogance of his fellow Time Lords -- and if he kills this caveman for his own benefit, he will prove himself no better than they are. The Doctor departs, leaving the First Doctor with something to think about.
The TARDIS then lands during the events of the War Games, where he helps his [[Second Doctor|second incarnation]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]] and [[Zoe Heriot]] with their important mission to contact the [[Time Lord]]s. Having regained his second life's memories, he leaves happily.


The TARDIS then materializes on a foggy hillside, where the Doctor meets a confused Roman legionnaire who can’t remember how long he’s been fighting, and who claims to have seen men with weapons that kill at a distance, and vehicles which move by themselves. Exploring further, the Doctor passes through a wall of mist and finds himself on a World War One battlefield, where he is captured by the equally confused German Lieutenant Lucke. Lucke, desperate to make sense of what’s happening, tries to shoot the Doctor, but at the last moment a general arrives and stops him. Realizing that the Doctor does not belong to this time zone, the general sends him via time machine to the HQ at the centre of the zones, but he arrives just as the human resistance overpowers the aliens who have brought them to this planet to fight war games. The Doctor meets his second incarnation, and once again Time is suspended while they share memories. This time the Doctor advises his past incarnation to summon the Time Lords for help, even though it will mean risking his own capture. The Second Doctor points out that by crossing his own timeline, the Eighth Doctor has risked changing history; there is no guarantee that the Second Doctor will survive his encounter with the Time Lords just because the Eighth exists. Nevertheless, he reluctantly agrees to do so, and the Eighth Doctor departs as the Time Lords arrive to put matters right again.
He next meets the [[Third Doctor]], who himself has just fought the Master and the [[Sea Devil]]s and has saved humanity by blowing up a Sea Devil base. He, blaming his eighth self for his exile to Earth and for the Master's concurrent escape, threatens him with the Master's [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]]. But he tosses the weapon to him instead. The Master has again escaped to fight another day, and the Eighth Doctor leaves.


The Third Doctor, exiled to twentieth-century Earth, has just blown up a Sea-Devil base to save humanity, but in the confusion the Master has escaped from imprisonment. One abandoned hovercraft, a murdered motorist and a hypnotised policeman later, the Master arrives in Devil’s End to collect his TARDIS, but the Doctor and Jo are able to trail him there. They arrive to find him holding the white witch Olive Hawthorne hostage and awaiting his chance to kill the Doctor, but before he can do so Miss Hawthorne taps the power of the elementals in the crypt and the Master is overpowered by the sudden release of telekinetic energy. He escapes in his TARDIS, and the Doctor and Jo are forced to return empty-handed to UNIT HQ -- where they find the Eighth Doctor waiting. Once again the Doctors share memories, but the Third Doctor does so reluctantly, blaming the Eighth for the advice which resulted in his forced regeneration and exile. As the Eighth Doctor’s identity becomes more complete, he is beginning to remember things of his own accord, and he assures the Third Doctor that he will regain his freedom and end his third life with a noble gesture. The Master returns to make one final attempt to kill his enemy, but is caught off guard by the presence of a future Doctor, and the two incarnations join forces to drive him away again. The Third Doctor considers forcing the Eighth Doctor to give him his working TARDIS, but reconsiders and lets him go, returning to his exile of his own free will.
Having landed on [[Vampire planet|the planet]] of the [[Three Who Rule]], the Eighth Doctor gives the [[Fourth Doctor]] an emergency blood transfusion after his younger self is attacked and nearly fatally drained by another group of vampires, and leaves with yet more memories (to the astonishment of companion [[Romana II|Romana]]).


The TARDIS takes the Doctor to E-Space, where the Fourth Doctor and Romana have defeated the vampire Lords of a primitive planet; however, there remains the possibility that the vampire taint has not been fully extinguished. The Fourth Doctor discusses preventive measures with the rebel leader Kalmar, but while he does so Romana is led into a trap and captured by Lord Zarn, the leader of a vampire coven in the nearby forest. Zarn fears that the peasants, emboldened by the death of the Three Who Rule, will now turn on the other Lords, and intends therefore to transform the Doctor and Romana into vampires to create a new King and Queen. The Doctor goes to Romana’s rescue and manages to distract the vampires while she escapes, and the Eighth Doctor arrives just in time to save her from the pursuing vampires. He accompanies her back to Zarn’s mansion, where the vampires have all but drained the Fourth Doctor of blood; the Eighth sets a fire as a distraction, however, and enters to rescue his fourth self. The rebel peasants, realizing that the Doctor and Romana are missing, show up and make short work of Zarn and his vampires, and the Eighth Doctor saves the Fourth’s life by giving him a transfusion. The Eighth Doctor departs, with more pieces of his memory fitting into place.
Meanwhile, back on [[Gallifrey]], Lady President [[Flavia]] has noticed the Doctor crossing his timelines and demands that he be carefully watched. A Time Lord called [[Ryoth]] demands the Doctor be executed: the resulting paradoxes could be irreversible. Flavia denies this. Ryoth alerts the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] to the situation, and the Agency give him access to the fabled [[Time Scoop|Timescoop]] technology, perfectly preserved since the [[Death Zone]] incident. He uses it to send a [[Raston Warrior Robot]] to the [[Fifth Doctor]] and his companions, [[Tegan Jovanka]] and [[Vislor Turlough]]. Luckily, the Eighth Doctor then arrives at the aftermath of the incident in the [[Death Zone]], where he saves his fifth incarnation and his companions from the Raston Warrior Robot and a passing platoon of [[Sontaran]]s by tricking the two into fighting each other. The Doctors create a feedback system, so when Ryoth sends a [[Drashig]] to kill them, it instead materialises in the same room as Ryoth and eats him and the Timescoop. It is then caught and transmatted to the Death Zone by guards in the [[Capitol]] in the hopes that it will take care of the other horrors there.


Back on Gallifrey, the Time Lords detect temporal instability and discover that the Doctor is crossing his own timestream. An ambitious Time Lord named Ryoth, who has fallen afoul of the Doctor’s meddling in the past, urges that he be executed for the crime, but President Flavia chooses merely to keep him under observation. Ryoth, incensed, alerts the Celestial Intervention Agency, and the Interventionists decide to use him as a deniable agent. He is therefore taken to the legendary Timescoop, which was preserved after the Death Zone incident, and is left to use it as he sees fit. Ryoth locates the Fifth Doctor on the Eye of Orion and uses the Timescoop to send a Raston Warrior Robot after him. The Eighth Doctor arrives just in time, and the Raston robot, confused by the presence of two identical brain patterns in separate locations, is unable to decide which to attack first and seizes up. Ryoth, furious, transports a Sontaran patrol to deal with the Doctors, but they manage to convince Commander Vrag that the Raston Robot is a vital part of the TARDIS operating system. He thus reactivates it, and the robot slaughters its way through the Sontarans. The Doctors then rig up a device to generate temporal feedback, and when the infuriated Ryoth attempts to send a Drashig after them, it materializes instead in the Timescoop chamber, where it eats both Ryoth and the Timescoop machinery before being caught and destroyed by Chancellory guards.
Soon he arrives in the middle of his second trial by the Time Lords, which his sixth self seems to be losing (especially as the insidious [[The Valeyard|Valeyard]] has just accused him of a mass genocide attack against the [[Vervoid]]s). After giving him advice and encouragement, as well as helping to begin an investigation into his past self's trial on Gallifrey, he leaves, his memories almost completely intact.


The Doctor then arrives on a Gallifreyan space station, where the Sixth Doctor has just been found guilty of genocide and is being marched off to face execution. The time bubble as the two Doctors meet enables the Sixth Doctor to escape, but as they flee from the Station in the Eighth Doctor’s TARDIS, they realize that the trial is still going on; the “execution” was an alternate timeline forced into existence by the mysterious Valeyard. The Eighth Doctor’s arrival has put paid to that timeline, and the Sixth Doctor travelling with him is therefore a temporal paradox which will soon vanish. Before this can happen, the Doctors go to Gallifrey to contact President Niroc and demand an inquiry into the trial; why is it being held on a station so far away from Gallifrey and where did the Valeyard acquire the power to force an alternate timeline? As the flustered Niroc prepares for the inquiry, the Doctors contact former President Flavia, who was forced to step down following rumours that the Matrix had been compromised; the non-entity Niroc was unexpectedly elected in her place, and he has filled the High Council with his supporters and instituted new security procedures which have caused much unrest amongst the Shobogans.
He finally arrives on the planet [[Metebelis III]], where the alone and depressed [[Seventh Doctor]] is trapped by a [[Eight Legs|giant spider]]. After rescuing his former self (by killing the arachnid with the TCE), he remembers leaving Sam, and immediately dashes back into the TARDIS to her rescue.


With Flavia’s help, the Doctors ensure that Time Lords sympathetic to their cause will be on the board of inquiry into the trial. The anomalous Sixth Doctor finally vanishes after telling his story, but he’s lasted long enough for the Eighth Doctor to put the pieces together; the Matrix was indeed infiltrated by aliens working from a base on Earth, and the Celestial Intervention Agency deliberately devastated the Earth to protect their secrets. When the Sixth Doctor began to stumble across the truth, they struck a deal with Niroc and the Valeyard in order to get the Doctor out of the way and cover up their incompetence. The Master appears and informs the board that he has revealed the truth to the Gallifreyans, intending to provoke a rebellion and seize control of Gallifrey in the ensuing chaos. While Flavia tries to keep the angry Time Lords in check, the Doctor visits the Low Town where the ordinary Gallifreyans live, and convinces his friends amongst the Shobogans to hold off on the rebellion. It soon becomes clear that Flavia is unable to contain the political turmoil on her own, so the Doctor visits Rassilon’s Tomb and convinces the legendary Time Lord to release Borusa, who was a worthy politician before he fell victim to his own arrogance. Rassilon summons Borusa from an earlier timeline and sends him to the Panopticon, where the Time Lords, shocked by the return of the legendary figure, allow him to lead them to a peaceful solution. A deal is struck with the Shobogans, the corrupt High Council is impeached, and the Sixth Doctor -- having successfully defeated the Valeyard, his own dark side -- departs with his companion Mel.
Meanwhile, the Master is visiting the [[Morg]]s, and gives them some of his treasure in return for a [[Deathworm Morphant]]. After testing it in his lab, he goes to [[Skaro]], in the hope of being killed and then stealing the Doctor's body.


The Doctor sets off for his final encounter with his seventh self. Seeking solace on the planet Metebelis 3, the depressed Seventh Doctor is captured by a giant spider who has survived the destruction of her colony, but the Eighth Doctor arrives and rescues him. When they meet, the Eighth Doctor’s memories are fully restored, and despite the danger to the timelines he warns his previous incarnation not to answer a call soon to be made by an old enemy. Nevertheless, the Seventh Doctor’s spirits have been restored, and he decides to face his fate knowingly. The Master, meanwhile, hoping to cheat death and lead the Doctor into a final trap, visits a tribe known as the Morgs and acquires one of their deathworms, symbiotic creatures which enable them to survive beyond death. Having absorbed the deathworm into himself, the Master then travels to Skaro to lay a final trap for the Doctor.
Once saved by the Doctor, Sam decides to join him on his travels.
 
The Eighth Doctor returns to Gallifrey to visit Rassilon, suspecting that the legendary Time Lord guided his journey. Rassilon confirms his suspicions; certain loose ends of history needed attending to, and now the use of the Magnetron and Borusa’s skill at temporal engineering have restored the future Earth to its proper position in time and space, ensuring that the Ravolox incident never occurred. The Doctor then ties up the last loose end by returning to Foreman’s Yard and rescuing Sam Jones from the knife-wielding Baz Bailey. The police arrive just in time to capture Bailey with the cocaine which the Doctor has returned to him, but as the Doctor prepares to depart, Sam leaps into the TARDIS at the last moment. The Doctor insists that she return home immediately, but she insists that he let her take at least one trip to see the Universe. When he identifies himself as Doctor John Smith, she points out that her last name is Jones -- and with names like Smith and Jones, they might almost have been made for each other.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
*[[Eighth Doctor]]
* [[Eighth Doctor]]
**loses his memory due to the Master's trap after his death
* [[First Doctor]]
*[[First Doctor]]
* [[Second Doctor]]
*[[Second Doctor]]
* [[Third Doctor]]
*[[Third Doctor]]
* [[Fourth Doctor]]
*[[Fourth Doctor]]
* [[Fifth Doctor]]
*[[Fifth Doctor]]
* [[Sixth Doctor]]
*[[Sixth Doctor]]
* [[Seventh Doctor]]
*[[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[Sam Jones]]
*[[Sam Jones]]
* [[The Master]]
*[[The Master]]
* [[The Valeyard]]
**Retrieves his TARDIS from [[Devil's End]].
* Miss [[Olive Hawthorne]]
**Eats a [[Deathworm]] to cheat death (again).
* [[Tarak]]
*[[The Valeyard]]
* [[Ivo]]
*Miss [[Olive Hawthorne]]
* [[Matrix Rassilon]]
**May have latent telekinetic abilities.
* [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]
*[[Tarak]]
* [[Flavia]]
**Dead vampiric leader.
* [[Susan Foreman]]
*[[Ivo]]
* [[Barbara Wright]]
**Plans to make an Inn of the town hall.
* [[Ian Chesterton]]
*[[Rassilon]]
* [[Jamie McCrimmon]]
*[[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]
* [[Zoe Heriot]]
**Meets the Eighth Doctor.
* [[Jo Grant]]
*[[Flavia]]
* [[John Benton]]
*[[Susan Foreman]]
* [[Romana II]]
*[[Barbara Wright]]
* [[Tegan Jovanka]]
*[[Ian Chesterton]]
* [[Vislor Turlough]]
*[[Jamie McCrimmon]]
* [[Raston Warrior Robot]]
*[[Zoe Heriot]]
* [[Ryoth]]
*[[Jo Grant]]
* [[Trev Selby]]
*[[Sergeant Benton]]
* [[Vicky Latimer]]
*[[Romana II]]
* [[Marilyn Simms]]
*[[Tegan Jovanka]]
* [[Vrag]]
*[[Vislor Turlough]]
* [[Charlie (The Eight Doctors)|Machete Charlie]]
*[[Raston Warrior Robot]]
* [[John Hart (The Sea Devils)|John Hart]]
**massacres the [[Sontaran]]s
* [[Jane Blythe (The Sea Devils)|Jane Blythe]]
* [[Jack Harris]]
* [[Zarn]]
* [[Hurda]]
* [[Xan]]
* [[Engin]]
* [[Borusa]]


== References ==
=== Baz's gang ===
* [[Flavia]] is president.
* [[Baz Bailey]]
* [[Drashig]]s are [[time scoop]]ed in order to launch an attack on the Doctor.
* [[Mikey (The Eight Doctors)|Mikey]]
* [[Shobogans]] speak highly of the Doctor.
* [[Pete (The Eight Doctors)|Pete]]
* [[Deathworm]]s were tamed by the [[Morg]]. [[The Master]] experimented on them for his own purposes.
* [[Monster (The Eight Doctors)|Monster]]
* The [[Eye of Harmony]] seen in the TARDIS is a symbolic manifestation.
* The [[Raston Warrior Robot]] feeds on atomic radiation in the atmosphere. You can confuse it with two similar brain wave patterns.
* [[Rassilon's Red]] is Gallifrey's finest vintage, the Sixth Doctor and Eighth Doctor drink several goblets of it.


==Notes==
=== Coal Hill police ===
* There are several...discontinuities within The Eight Doctors (owed perhaps to Dicks's tendency to insert continuity links everywhere).
* [[Foster (The Eight Doctors)|Foster]]
:* Flavia is president, however according to continuity so far [[Romana II|Romana]] is President (Dicks' own novel [[NA]]: ''[[Blood Harvest]]'' established it).
* [[Sanders (The Eight Doctors)|Sanders]]
:* Borusa's time scoop was previously destroyed in [[MA]]: ''[[Goth Opera]]'' is now eaten.
* [[Ballard (The Eight Doctors)|Ballard]]
:* In this novel the Seventh Doctor has a "mid life crisis" while trying to deal with his approaching death...which was more or less addressed in [[NA]]: ''[[The Room With No Doors]]'' and ''[[Lungbarrow]]''.


* There is an explanation of how the Master became worm-like in [[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]''.
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Foods and beverages ===
* [[Rassilon's Red]] is Gallifrey's finest vintage. The Sixth Doctor and Eighth Doctor drink several goblets of it.
* [[Best Old Shobogan]] is a beverage drunk by the Outsiders of Gallifrey.
* The [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana II|Romana]] drink [[Wine#Red wine|red wine]].
* The Eighth and Fourth Doctors drink [[wine]] together in E-Space.
* The Eighth Doctor has [[tea]] and [[toast]] whilst recovering from giving blood.
* The Eighth Doctor drinks [[tea]] and eats a [[bacon sandwich]] whilst in Coal Hill police station.
* The Fifth Doctor drinks [[fruit juice]] in the TARDIS.


* By the end of the novel:
=== Gallifreyan culture ===
:* All 8 of the Doctors have appeared.
* [[Shobogan]]s speak highly of the Doctor.
:* Two versions of the Master (Roger Delgado and another) have appeared.
* The [[Eye of Harmony]] in the Doctor's TARDIS is a symbolic manifestation.
:* At one point there are two Sixth Doctors.
* The [[Castellan]] keeps the [[Black File|Black]], [[Grey File|Grey]] and [[White File]]s.
:* Borusa testifies in a future where he's still locked in the [[Dark Tower]].


*It has long been acknowledged by ''some'' fans (according to the [http://drwhoguide.com/who.htm Doctor Who Reference Guide]) that the Eighth Doctor audio dramas and comic strips are set in the gap between ''The Eight Doctors'' and ''[[Vampire Science]]''.
=== Individuals ===
* [[Olive Hawthorne]] may have latent [[Telekinesis|telekinetic]] abilities.
* The Eighth Doctor meets the Brigadier (Although the Brigadier does not realise that he is the same man as the Third Doctor).
* [[Romana II]] has a different blood type from the Doctor.
* The [[Matrix Rassilon]] has been guiding the Eighth Doctor's journeys throughout the novel "to make one or two small improvements in the pattern of history".


== Continuity ==
=== Time Lords ===
* This novel also makes for one of the more continuity heavy novels with Terrance Dicks referencing: [[DW]]: ''[[State of Decay]]'' (which he had previous written a sequel as [[NA]]: ''[[Blood Harvest]]''). Also [[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]'' (also by Dicks) is references heavily here.
* [[Flavia]] is president. She has regenerated a few times since meeting the Fifth Doctor.
* [[Spandrell]] is Castellan once more.
* The Eighth Doctor loses his memory from a trap left by the Master, requiring him to visit his past selves and regain his memories via telepathic contact with them.
* Time Lords retain the same blood type across all their regenerations, allowing the Eighth Doctor to donate his own blood to save the Fourth.
* The Time Lords chart the incarnations of their people, and past incarnations are blue while the current incarnation is red.
* The [[Celestial Intervention Agency|CIA]] has placed a tracker in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. They have also gained possession of the [[Time Scoop]], which was supposed to have been destroyed after Borusa had played the [[Game of Rassilon (The Five Doctors)|Game of Rassilon]].


* The Master retrieves his TARDIS from where he hid it in [[PDA]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy]]''.
=== Temporal Mechanics ===
* When the Eighth Doctor meets his predecessors, the initial contact triggers a moment of temporal stasis, giving the Doctors a few moments to talk before time restarts.
* Time Lords share memories when multiple incarnations of the same Time Lord are acting independently in the same time zone, but the memories of the latest incarnation are vague; as a result, the Fifth Doctor remembers the Third Doctor and Sarah confronting the Raston Warrior Robot in the Death Zone, but it takes him a few moments to recall the exact details.
* Ryoth's skill in Temporal Mechanics allows him to use the Time Scoop.


*The BBC audio ''[[Bounty]]'' follows directly from this.
=== The Doctor ===
* The Doctor has a brief flashback of "[[flying]] through the air" and "facing a [[Venusian|many-armed, glowing-eyed being]] in a huge, misty cavern" after he uses [[Venusian aikido]].


*While pondering the Doctor's interaction with his other selves, Flavia mentions the events of [[DW]]: ''[[The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors]]'', and ''[[The Two Doctors]]'' as other events where multiple incarnations were present.
=== Locations ===
* The Master left [[The Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] in [[Devil's End]]. He retrieves it following his escape from Fortress Island.


==Timeline==
=== Species ===
For the First Doctor:
* [[Drashig]]s, [[Sontaran]]s and the [[Raston Warrior Robot]] are [[time scoop]]ed in order to launch an attack on the [[Fifth Doctor]] and the [[Eighth Doctor]].
*This story occurs during episode 3 of ''[[An Unearthly Child]]''.
* [[Deathworm]]s were tamed by the [[Morg]]. [[The Master]] experimented on them for his own purposes.


For the Second Doctor:
=== Technology ===
*This story occurs during episode 9 of ''[[The War Games]]''.
* The [[Raston Warrior Robot]] feeds on atomic [[radiation]] in the [[atmosphere]]. It can be confused by two similar [[brain]] wave patterns combined with the principle of [[Buridan's ass]].
* The Master uses his [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]] on a lorry driver; it is later taken by the Third Doctor, who gives it to the Eighth as a souvenir, the Eighth using it to save the Seventh from a Spider before throwing it away.


For the Third Doctor:
== Notes ==
*This story occurs after [[DW]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]''
* The title of chapter eleven, ''The Vampire Mutation'', was a working title for ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]''.
*This story occurs before [[DWM]]: ''[[Under Pressure]]''
* The Doctor's first line in the ''BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures'' series is; "Dear old H.G., such an optimist. Such an enthusiast... especially for the ladies."
* Flavia is president. However, Dicks' earlier novel [[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Harvest (novel)|Blood Harvest]]'' established that [[Romana II]] was President. This discrepancy was addressed in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', where Rassilon's "improvements to the pattern of history" were explained as an attempt to undo the events of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]''.
* By the end of the novel the first eight Doctors have appeared, three versions of [[the Master]] — the {{Delgado|n=Delgado}}, the {{Ainley|n=Ainley}}, and an unknown incarnation — plus [[the War Chief]] have appeared, we meet two versions of the [[Sixth Doctor]], and [[Borusa]] is temporarily released from the [[Dark Tower]], but may have returned to [[Rassilon]] as he still feels as though he should be punished.
* This novel also makes for one of the more continuity-heavy novels, with Terrance Dicks referencing [[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'' (which he had previous written a sequel to as [[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Harvest (novel)|Blood Harvest]]''). [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'' (also by Dicks) is referenced heavily here.
* Uniquely for this novel range, the back cover features art derived from a television screenshot (namely, [[Richard Mathews]] as [[Rassilon]] from [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')


For the Fourth Doctor:
== Continuity ==
*This story occurs after [[DW]]: ''[[State of Decay]]''
* The Master retrieves his TARDIS from where he hid it in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]''.
*This story occurs before [[DWM]]: ''[[Pathfinders]]''
* While pondering the Doctor's interaction with his other selves, Flavia mentions the events of [[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', and ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'' as other events where multiple incarnations were present.
 
* While this story states that the Eighth Doctor persuaded the [[First Doctor]] not to kill a caveman during his adventure in the year 100,000 BC, ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') another source given by the First Doctor himself stated that it was Ian who dissuaded him instead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sontarans (audio story)|The Sontarans]]'')
For the Fifth Doctor:
* The Eighth Doctor would later meet the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors again in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Four Doctors (audio story)|The Four Doctors]]'', has a brief meeting with the [[Third Doctor]] in ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference]]'', and talks with all seven of his predecessors in ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]''.
*This story occurs after [[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]''
* The Master's last referenced encounter with the Doctor was on the [[Cheetah World]], and he still has the [[Cheetah virus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')
*This story occurs before [[ST]]: ''[[Lily]]''
* [[Ruath]] supposedly destroyed the Timescoop chamber in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Goth Opera (novel)|Goth Opera]]''.
 
* In this novel the Seventh Doctor has a "mid life crisis" while trying to deal with his approaching death, which was more or less addressed in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Room With No Doors (novel)|The Room With No Doors]]'' and ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]''.
For the Sixth Doctor:
* The Master uses the creation of the Morg to become worm-like as he is in [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''.
*This story occurs during episode 1 of ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]''.
* There is an inconsistency to Tegan knowing her Doctors as she mistakenly believed the Eighth Doctor to be the Fourth even though she had met the Fourth when he regenerated into the Fifth in ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]''.
 
* The "small improvements" that Rassilon used the Eighth Doctor to make through this novel are elaborated on in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]''.
For the Seventh Doctor:
*This story occurs after [[PDA]]: ''[[Bullet Time]]''
*This story occurs before [[NA]]: ''[[The Room With No Doors]]'' (when the Doctor returns to Chris)
 
For the Eighth Doctor:
*This story occurs after [[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]''
*This story occurs before ''[[Bounty]]''


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The Eight Doctors was the first novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Terrance Dicks, released 2 June 1997 and featured the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones.

It explored the amnesia theme of the Doctor Who TV movie by having the Eighth Doctor encounter his predecessors. Amnesia would later become a frequent affliction for this incarnation, particularly across this novel series.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Recuperating after the trauma of his recent regeneration, the Eighth Doctor falls foul of a final booby trap set by his arch-enemy, the Master.

When he recovers, the disorientated Doctor looks in a mirror and sees the face of a stranger. He knows only that he is called the Doctor - nothing more. But something deep inside tells him to trust the TARDIS, and his hands move over the controls of their own accord.

The TARDIS takes him to a strangely familiar junkyard in late-nineties London, where he is flung into a confrontation between local drug-dealers and Samantha Jones, a rebellious teenager from Coal Hill School.

But the Doctor soon finds the TARDIS transporting him to various other places in order to recover all his memories - and that involves seeing seven strangely-familiar faces...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

After an encounter with the Bruce Master in 1999 San Francisco, the Eighth Doctor finishes reading The Time Machine (a book written by his old friend H. G. Wells). After he checks the Eye of Harmony in his TARDIS, he falls prey to a final trap set by his old enemy, the Master, which erases all of his memory. The only fact he knows for certain is that he is called "the Doctor" - but Doctor who? His instincts tell him to "trust the TARDIS", which immediately lands.

He has landed at a scrapyard at 76 Totter's Lane, London in 1997, where he encounters a young lady by the name of Sam Jones, who is being accused by local drug dealers, led by Baz Bailey, of "grassing" them over to the police. Having saved Sam from these insidious characters, who were intending to force Sam into taking drugs to get her addicted, the Doctor falls foul of the local police who promptly charge him with possession and selling the cocaine he has confiscated from the thugs. Sam tells her two teachers, who have noticed her lateness, and takes them back to the junkyard to verify the story. The Doctor escapes in the confusion of Bailey's desperate attack on the local police station. He runs back into the TARDIS and it dematerialises - taking the cocaine with him to dispose of it safely. This leaves Sam alone, defenceless against the knife-wielding druggies...

The TARDIS lands in the year 100,000 BC, and he meets his first incarnation in the jungle and they psychically link (giving the Eighth Doctor his memories up to that point in his life). The Eighth Doctor stops his other self from killing a caveman who was slowing their party down. The First Doctor explains that he must get away before the "time bubble" his eighth self is in bursts and starts to damage the timeline. The Eighth Doctor then leaves.

The TARDIS then lands during the events of the War Games, where he helps his second incarnation, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot with their important mission to contact the Time Lords. Having regained his second life's memories, he leaves happily.

He next meets the Third Doctor, who himself has just fought the Master and the Sea Devils and has saved humanity by blowing up a Sea Devil base. He, blaming his eighth self for his exile to Earth and for the Master's concurrent escape, threatens him with the Master's Tissue Compression Eliminator. But he tosses the weapon to him instead. The Master has again escaped to fight another day, and the Eighth Doctor leaves.

Having landed on the planet of the Three Who Rule, the Eighth Doctor gives the Fourth Doctor an emergency blood transfusion after his younger self is attacked and nearly fatally drained by another group of vampires, and leaves with yet more memories (to the astonishment of companion Romana).

Meanwhile, back on Gallifrey, Lady President Flavia has noticed the Doctor crossing his timelines and demands that he be carefully watched. A Time Lord called Ryoth demands the Doctor be executed: the resulting paradoxes could be irreversible. Flavia denies this. Ryoth alerts the Celestial Intervention Agency to the situation, and the Agency give him access to the fabled Timescoop technology, perfectly preserved since the Death Zone incident. He uses it to send a Raston Warrior Robot to the Fifth Doctor and his companions, Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough. Luckily, the Eighth Doctor then arrives at the aftermath of the incident in the Death Zone, where he saves his fifth incarnation and his companions from the Raston Warrior Robot and a passing platoon of Sontarans by tricking the two into fighting each other. The Doctors create a feedback system, so when Ryoth sends a Drashig to kill them, it instead materialises in the same room as Ryoth and eats him and the Timescoop. It is then caught and transmatted to the Death Zone by guards in the Capitol in the hopes that it will take care of the other horrors there.

Soon he arrives in the middle of his second trial by the Time Lords, which his sixth self seems to be losing (especially as the insidious Valeyard has just accused him of a mass genocide attack against the Vervoids). After giving him advice and encouragement, as well as helping to begin an investigation into his past self's trial on Gallifrey, he leaves, his memories almost completely intact.

He finally arrives on the planet Metebelis III, where the alone and depressed Seventh Doctor is trapped by a giant spider. After rescuing his former self (by killing the arachnid with the TCE), he remembers leaving Sam, and immediately dashes back into the TARDIS to her rescue.

Meanwhile, the Master is visiting the Morgs, and gives them some of his treasure in return for a Deathworm Morphant. After testing it in his lab, he goes to Skaro, in the hope of being killed and then stealing the Doctor's body.

Once saved by the Doctor, Sam decides to join him on his travels.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Baz's gang[[edit] | [edit source]]

Coal Hill police[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Foods and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Rassilon's Red is Gallifrey's finest vintage. The Sixth Doctor and Eighth Doctor drink several goblets of it.
  • Best Old Shobogan is a beverage drunk by the Outsiders of Gallifrey.
  • The Fourth Doctor and Romana drink red wine.
  • The Eighth and Fourth Doctors drink wine together in E-Space.
  • The Eighth Doctor has tea and toast whilst recovering from giving blood.
  • The Eighth Doctor drinks tea and eats a bacon sandwich whilst in Coal Hill police station.
  • The Fifth Doctor drinks fruit juice in the TARDIS.

Gallifreyan culture[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Olive Hawthorne may have latent telekinetic abilities.
  • The Eighth Doctor meets the Brigadier (Although the Brigadier does not realise that he is the same man as the Third Doctor).
  • Romana II has a different blood type from the Doctor.
  • The Matrix Rassilon has been guiding the Eighth Doctor's journeys throughout the novel "to make one or two small improvements in the pattern of history".

Time Lords[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Flavia is president. She has regenerated a few times since meeting the Fifth Doctor.
  • Spandrell is Castellan once more.
  • The Eighth Doctor loses his memory from a trap left by the Master, requiring him to visit his past selves and regain his memories via telepathic contact with them.
  • Time Lords retain the same blood type across all their regenerations, allowing the Eighth Doctor to donate his own blood to save the Fourth.
  • The Time Lords chart the incarnations of their people, and past incarnations are blue while the current incarnation is red.
  • The CIA has placed a tracker in the Doctor's TARDIS. They have also gained possession of the Time Scoop, which was supposed to have been destroyed after Borusa had played the Game of Rassilon.

Temporal Mechanics[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • When the Eighth Doctor meets his predecessors, the initial contact triggers a moment of temporal stasis, giving the Doctors a few moments to talk before time restarts.
  • Time Lords share memories when multiple incarnations of the same Time Lord are acting independently in the same time zone, but the memories of the latest incarnation are vague; as a result, the Fifth Doctor remembers the Third Doctor and Sarah confronting the Raston Warrior Robot in the Death Zone, but it takes him a few moments to recall the exact details.
  • Ryoth's skill in Temporal Mechanics allows him to use the Time Scoop.

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The title of chapter eleven, The Vampire Mutation, was a working title for State of Decay.
  • The Doctor's first line in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series is; "Dear old H.G., such an optimist. Such an enthusiast... especially for the ladies."
  • Flavia is president. However, Dicks' earlier novel PROSE: Blood Harvest established that Romana II was President. This discrepancy was addressed in PROSE: Unnatural History, where Rassilon's "improvements to the pattern of history" were explained as an attempt to undo the events of PROSE: Lungbarrow.
  • By the end of the novel the first eight Doctors have appeared, three versions of the Master — the Delgado, the Ainley, and an unknown incarnation — plus the War Chief have appeared, we meet two versions of the Sixth Doctor, and Borusa is temporarily released from the Dark Tower, but may have returned to Rassilon as he still feels as though he should be punished.
  • This novel also makes for one of the more continuity-heavy novels, with Terrance Dicks referencing TV: State of Decay (which he had previous written a sequel to as PROSE: Blood Harvest). TV: The Five Doctors (also by Dicks) is referenced heavily here.
  • Uniquely for this novel range, the back cover features art derived from a television screenshot (namely, Richard Mathews as Rassilon from TV: The Five Doctors)

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Master retrieves his TARDIS from where he hid it in PROSE: The Face of the Enemy.
  • While pondering the Doctor's interaction with his other selves, Flavia mentions the events of TV: The Three Doctors, The Five Doctors, and The Two Doctors as other events where multiple incarnations were present.
  • While this story states that the Eighth Doctor persuaded the First Doctor not to kill a caveman during his adventure in the year 100,000 BC, (TV: An Unearthly Child) another source given by the First Doctor himself stated that it was Ian who dissuaded him instead. (AUDIO: The Sontarans)
  • The Eighth Doctor would later meet the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors again in AUDIO: The Four Doctors, has a brief meeting with the Third Doctor in Interference, and talks with all seven of his predecessors in The Light at the End.
  • The Master's last referenced encounter with the Doctor was on the Cheetah World, and he still has the Cheetah virus. (TV: Survival)
  • Ruath supposedly destroyed the Timescoop chamber in PROSE: Goth Opera.
  • In this novel the Seventh Doctor has a "mid life crisis" while trying to deal with his approaching death, which was more or less addressed in PROSE: The Room With No Doors and Lungbarrow.
  • The Master uses the creation of the Morg to become worm-like as he is in TV: Doctor Who.
  • There is an inconsistency to Tegan knowing her Doctors as she mistakenly believed the Eighth Doctor to be the Fourth even though she had met the Fourth when he regenerated into the Fifth in Logopolis.
  • The "small improvements" that Rassilon used the Eighth Doctor to make through this novel are elaborated on in PROSE: Unnatural History.

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